Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
The Musée des Beaux-Arts ( German Museum of Fine Arts ) is the collection of old masters from the city of Strasbourg in Alsace . It has been on the first and second floors of the baroque Palais Rohan since 1898 . As of December 31, 2015, the museum owned 1,934 works (mostly paintings) from the 14th century to 1870, about a sixth of which are on permanent display; since then the collection has grown (see below). The collection shows artists from the non- Upper Rhine area from the 14th century as well as artists from the Upper Rhine area from 1681, the year Alsace was annexed to France. The artists of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from the Upper Rhine area are exhibited in the neighboring women's shelter museum.
The museum also has a small, significant collection of sculptures (mainly busts ), mostly from Italy and France.
historical overview
The first municipal art collection in the city of Strasbourg was the result of the French Revolution and resulted from the expropriation of churches and monasteries. Over the years, the collection, founded in 1801 as a result of the Chaptal Decree , grew through private donations and government loans from the holdings of the Louvre . On August 24, 1870, the museum housed in the Aubette on Kléberplatz was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War , it was decided to re-establish the museum; the Berlin art historian Wilhelm Bode was commissioned with this in 1889 . The museum was launched in 1890 and has since been refurbished through acquisitions and donations.
In 1931, under the direction of Hans Haug (1890–1965), the collection of medieval art and painting from the Upper Rhine ( Konrad Witz , Hans Baldung , Sebastian Stoskopff ) was transferred to the newly founded women's shelter museum. The modern art collection was later moved to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art . Haug's superior during the German occupation 1940–1944 was Kurt Martin . During the Second World War , he was General Manager for the museums in Alsace. In total, Martin procured around 500 paintings for the Strasbourg museums from very different sources, mostly from France, the Netherlands and Germany. Most of these works are still in Strasbourg today. Martin was also the state agent for the safeguarding of art possessions from "property hostile to the people and the empire" in Alsace. His tasks also included the procurement from Jewish collections and from the collections of French people loyal to France.
On August 13, 1947, a fire destroyed part of the restored collection, including works by Francesco Guardi , Antonio Pollaiuolo , Lucas Cranach the Elder and Thomas de Keyser . With the money from the insurance company, however, other artistically valuable pictures could be purchased. The museum was and is regularly endowed with donations, including in 1987 and 1994 by the collectors Othon Kaufmann and François Schlageter (Italian paintings), in 2004 by the collectors Roger and Elisabeth Eisenbeth (Dutch paintings), in 2009 by the collector Ann L. Oppenheimer ( Italian, Flemish and Dutch paintings). and in 2019 by the collectors Jeannine Poitrey and Marie-Claire Ballabio (17 paintings, mostly Italian and Flemish).
Exhibited painters (selection)
Italian
- Giotto di Bondone
- Sano di Pietro
- Sandro Botticelli
- Carlo Crivelli
- Piero di Cosimo
- Giovanni Battista Cima
- Raffael
- Antonio da Correggio
- Paolo Veronese
- Jacopo Tintoretto
- Guercino
- Canaletto
- Salvator Rosa
- Giambattista Pittoni
- Alessandro Magnasco
- Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Flemings and Dutch
- Hans Memling
- Gerard David
- Maarten van Heemskerck
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Jacob Jordaens
- Salomon van Ruysdael
- Pieter de Hooch
- Anton van Dyck
- Willem Kalf
- Pieter Claesz
Spaniards
French people
- Philippe de Champaigne
- Claude Lorrain
- Nicolas de Largillière
- François Boucher
- Simon Vouet
- Antoine Watteau
- Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- Théodore Chassériau
- Gustave Courbet
- Théodore Rousseau
Exhibited sculptors
- Baccio Bandinelli
- Alessandro Algardi
- Alessandro Vittoria
- François Girardon
- Jean-Antoine Houdon
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Théodore-Charles Gruyère
- François Joseph Bosio
- Adolf von Hildebrand
literature
- Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture , Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, May 2006, ISBN 2-901833-78-0 .
- Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg , Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, February 2009, ISBN 978-2-35125-030-3 .
- Les peintures italiennes du Musée des Beaux-Arts, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , Éditions Le Seuil, 1996, ISBN 978-2-901833-30-7 .
- Les Primitifs italiens du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg , Éditions Le Seuil, 1993, ISBN 978-2-901833-14-7 .
- Tanja Baensch: "Un petit Berlin"? The re-establishment of the Strasbourg painting collection by Wilhelm von Bode in a contemporary context. A contribution to museum politics in the German Empire. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-380-0 .
- Tessa Friederike Rosebrock: Kurt Martin and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Museum and exhibition policy in the 'Third Reich' and in the immediate post-war period. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-05-005189-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bilan des régions (hors musées nationaux) , p. 5 (French)
- ↑ Tanja Baensch: "Un petit Berlin"? The re-establishment of the Strasbourg painting collection by Wilhelm von Bode in a contemporary context. A contribution to museum politics in the German Empire. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-380-0 .
- ↑ Andrea Christine Bambi: Review by Tessa Friederike Rosebrock, Kurt Martin and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. In: sehepunkte 12, 2012, No. 6 [15. June 2012], last accessed: March 11, 2015.
- ^ Tessa Friederike Rosebrock: Kurt Martin and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Museum and exhibition policy in the 'Third Reich' and in the immediate post-war period , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 160–165.
- ^ Tessa Friederike Rosebrock: Kurt Martin and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Museum and exhibition policy in the 'Third Reich' and in the immediate post-war period , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 98 ff.
- ↑ "Agrandissement du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg" , La Tribune de l'Art, February 21 of 2007.
- ↑ "Plusieurs tableaux légués au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg" , La Tribune de l'Art, April 15th 2009
- ↑ Une donation exceptionnelle. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg (French)
- ↑ Didier Rykner: Tableaux, dessins et estampes: une collection offerte aux Musées de Strasbourg , La Tribune de l'art (French)
Web links
- Museum website and selected works on the same
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '50.39 " N , 7 ° 45' 7.84" O